So, Mr Fogg and I are watching The Skulls on TV which has a scene about a dual between the two lead characters. Mr Fogg immediately imparted “Well, if I were in a dual I’d want the weapons to be sausages”.
Ok then, everyone clear on that one??
Poop film
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Home Sweet Home, after a 3 hour kip at the Yotel an a 5 hour drive back, it’s home sweet home to roarin fire and a chilly house.
Tomorrow we go get Mr Spike.
Next up Halloween then Christmas (oh yeah).
Yeh RV bucket returned, refund given, gotta love complaining in the USA (gave the chappie his keys and the cupboard door as the Mrs scared off prospective customers with tales of shoddy RVs).
So back to the strip for a cracking lunch at Harley Davidson Cafe, with Mrs Fogg in an interesting Tshirt. See how many comments she gets?
Next stop the airport and 12 hours back to Gatport, 4 hours kip, then 6 hours back to home.
Here we are again, in the lobby of the Bellagio waiting for the shuttle to the airport to take us back to the UK (boo). It’s been a fun fortnight with plenty if fun in the RV, but unfortunately it’s time to go home.
It’s definitely wintery here now, rain all the way from Kingman and the queues for the taxis here in Vegas has to be seen to be believed (anyone would think it was spotting with rain a bit.
Next stop is the airport.
Viva Las Vegas baby yeah!!!
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In time honoured style, here in a brief list is our two week tour:
– 1,800 miles
– 311 dollars in gas
– 7 different campsites
– Average distance 180 miles (3 hours)
– Longest distance 592 miles (11.5 hours muppets)
– Slept in 2 locations over 7,000 ft above seal evel
– 1 cupboard door (fell off)
– 5 displaced screws
– 1 leaking shower
– 3 Steak BBQ
– 3 states (Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico)
– 27 Radio Telescopes at the VLA
– 1 Observatory
– £28 phone calls to the RV company over vehicle issues
– 34 Blogs
– Propane tank of $6.59
– 6 Mozzie bites on the Mrs
– 1 argument yet to be had when we hand back the key, screws, cupboard door, aircon unit and microwave
Everything else, priceless
Indeed yes Hello Hello A Queue I See, 5 miles north of Flagstaff with 101 miles left to cover to Kingman and here we is sat in a mega queue on the I-40 West. So we hit this at 1.50pm an didn’t get through it until 3.15pm
And here we are back where we started at the Blake Horse Ranch RV Park, for our last night of RVing. Tomorrow we do the 94 mile dash across the Hoover Dam to the Cruise America for 11am an then fly home.
Ahhh you cannot beat a healthy American traditional breakfast. I thought I’d have a treat in our last full day here and order blueberry pancakes (three of) which come with a side of bacon (of course, what else goes with pancake?), lashings of blueberry sauce and a little garnish of squirty cream. Yummy.
I feel all healthy now!
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So last night we stayed in Flagstaff centre, enjoyed a steak at Cuvee 98, then took a slow walk in the pitch black up to 1400 West Mars street (a whopping great hill over a mile in length) to the Lowell Observatory.
Tonight was supposed to be the best night to observe a meteor shower, however the clouds prevented seeing anything. There was a talk by one of the egg heads on what Meteors actually are, along with lots of “American” questions, “so like in the film where Bruce Willis saved the planet from a Meteor, is that like possible”.
We got to see the Clark Telescope, however since there was a heavy lightning storm they couldn’t get the thing our for fear of it acting as a 32 foot lightning rod.
All told a nice end to a fantastic day, apart from having to treat poor Mrs Fogg’s midge bites, one is actually the size of a satsuma, ouch!
In the Spirit of Halloween Mrs Fogg will gut a pumpkin and has let me buy the least scariest mask of all the ones I wanted to buy (and no that ain’t my normal face). This will be the face that greets the handful of children that visit on Oct 31st along with a blood soaked T-shirt and blood soaked apron, meat cleaver and slippers. Whilst Mrs Fogg will be dressed as Mortitia (growl).
Watch out for the pictures.
So here we are in Flagstaff in the fall, it really is quite a pleasant little city with a nice historic area, lots of eateries and fun things to see.
Tonight we intend to go up to the Lowell Observatory on 1400 West Mars Road. Flagstaff is the US’ lowest light emitting cities, which makes it perfect for star gazing (amid the rumbling thunder and lightning).
We have one full day left after today which will see us drive up to Kingman for the last night camping, then across the Hoover Dam to Vegas in time to hand back the bucket of bolts RV and all the screws, doors, microwaves and aircon units that have fallen off.
